The Federal Government has commenced moves to rehabilitate the old Burutu port in Delta State and dedicate it to shipment of solid mineral. The Managing Director, Nigeria Export and Import Bank, Mr Abubakar Bello, gave this indication at a recent stakeholders’ meeting on the cessation of Cabotage waivers. According to the NEXIM
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An arsenal of new technology is being put to the test fighting floods this year as rivers inundate towns and farm fields across the central United States. Drones, supercomputers and sonar that scans deep underwater are helping to maintain flood control projects and predict just where rivers will roar out of
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A Routing Scheme To Make Autonomous Underwater Vehicles Networks More Reliable. A new protocol salvages valuable data if one autonomous underwater vehicle fails in a fleet The ocean’s depths have long remained mysterious—a dark abyss where few humans go. But we still have a stake in this alien environment; scientists want to know
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FG Explores Cheaper Options After Spending N722 Billion On Port Dredging The Federal Government has concluded plans to utilise more cost-effective options for the management of its seaport channels, after spending more than N700bn on dredging through a joint venture arrangement. The Nigerian Ports Authority has concluded plans to overhaul its 15-year
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The Bakassi Deep Seaport is to become the second trade port in Nigeria, after the Apapa port. This was disclosed by the transaction adviser to the Federal Government on the Bakassi Deep Seaport Project, Feedback Infrastructure Limited, during the presentation of the Outline Business Case on the deep seaport to the
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The Nigeria Hydrological Services Agency (NIHSA ) in collaboration with the International Atomic Energy Agency are conducting studies that will help control the manner in which underground water is being extracted across the country. It was gathered in Abuja on Monday that the study would enable NIHSA to find out where
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The World Bank has put the cost of water from alternative providers in Nigeria at $650 to 700 million a year—four times more than the combined revenue of all 35 state water agencies (SWAs). According to the bank, should the trend continue within the next 10 years, less than a
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Scientists are mapping the entire ocean floor as part of an ambitious project that could finally find the missing Malaysian Airlines flight MH370. They will use state-of-the-art technology to explore every contour of Earth’s oceans by 2030. As well as uncovering missing wreckages, scientists behind the scheme hope to map hidden underwater
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Engineer Aishatu Aliyu Umar has been elected as the 16th National Chairman of the Nigerian Institution of Civil Engineers (NICE). Speaking during her investiture in Abuja, she promised to take the institute to greater heights. Engr. Aishatu said, “The continuing professional development of our members shall remain our principal focus. All our
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Scientists in Antarctica have finally drilled into a mysterious lake buried under more than 3,500 feet of ice in a bid to find out if life exists there. Mercer Subglacial Lake is a hydraulically active lake that lies more 1000m beneath the Whillans Ice Plain, a fast moving section of the
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